Famous Products of Mountain and Sea

(Sankai meisan zukushi, 山海名産盡)

Publisher: Shin’Ise-ya Kohei

c. 1833

This series of prints is listed as number 193 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints in this series are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for his contributions to this series.

	Title: Ise Abalone (伊勢鰒, Ise awabi) Description: Women diving for abalone at Ise with the “wedded rocks” of Futami bay in the mid-ground
	Another state of the above design with a yellow title cartouche, also published by Shin’Ise-ya Kohei
	This later edition was printed from new woodblocks and published by Tsuta-ya Jûzaburô.
	This is a keyblock print for the above design. A keyblock print (kyôgô or kyôgozuri-e) is one of the first impressions pulled from the first woodblock made by a carver from the artist’s original drawing. It is given to the artist to make notations about color, and possibly other alterations. The keyblock is also used to print black (usually) on the finished print. Note that this print, and the other illustrated keyblock prints, have publisher’s seals that are different from the seals on the completed prints.
	Title: Bonito (a schooling fish of the tuna family) from Sagami Province (相模堅魚) Description: Beauty on bull in foreground and Mt. Fuji in background
	Another state with the top of Mt. Fuji black
	An additional state without the sun
	Another state of the above design lacking the censor’s and publisher’s seals in the left lower corner
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Crucian Carp (Carassius carassius) from Ômi Province (近江の国源五郎鮒) Description: Woman and child caught in the wind
	Another state of the above design
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Frozen Snow from Kaga Province (加賀ノ雪) Description: Woman with umbrella having her wooden sandal (geta) adjusted
	Another state of the above design
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Geese from Iyo (a city in Okinawa) Description: Catching geese with nets
	Another state of the above design lacking the cartouche in the left lower corner containing the publisher’s seal
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Icefish from the Sumida River in Edo (東都第一角田川の白魚 歌) Description: Fishing boats with Mt. Fuji in background
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Hizen Province, Imari Porcelains (肥前国伊万里焼, Hizen no kuni Imariyaki) Description: A smoky kiln in the foreground
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Nara whitened cotton from Yamato Province (大和奈良さらし) Description: Two women looking at a kite that has fallen in the water
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Noodles from Shinano Province (信濃蕎麦) Description: Travelers with Mt. Fuji in the background
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Title: Whales from Kii Province (Kii kujira, 紀伊鯨) Description: Woman with three children
	Another state of the above design with a yellow title cartouche
	Keyblock print for the above design

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